Meningitis Panel Assays

Viral and bacterial infections are the most common cause of meningitis. There are many difficulties distinguishing bacterial meningitis from viral meningitis by symptoms. However, it is important to diagnose the specific cause of meningitis because the treatment differs depending on the cause. Inability to distinguish between partially treated bacterial meningitis and viral meningitis can lead to unnecessarily prolonged antibiotic treatment and increased duration of hospital admissions.

Allplex™ Meningitis Panel Assays are a multiplex one-step Real-time RT-PCR assay that detects and identifies 18 meningitis pathogens including 6 bacteria and 12 viruses simultaneously. Based on Seegene’s proprietary MuDT™ technology, this assay makes it possible to report multiple Ct values of each pathogen in a single channel without melting curve analysis.